Sunday 28 March 1999

Delegates arrive in Derry/Londonderry

4:00 Registration and Coffee, INCORE, Aberfoyle House

4:30 Welcome - Mari Fitzduff, Director INCORE

4:40 Aims and Objectives of the Workshop

Gillian Robinson, Research Director, INCORE
Marie Smyth, Project Director, Cost of the Troubles Study
Followed by brief introductions by delegates

5:15 - 7:00 SESSION ONE

The Role and Function of Research in Divided Societies
Chair: Marie Smyth, Project Director, Cost of the Troubles Study

Panel: Researching Conflict in Northern Ireland
John Darby, Senior Research Fellow, INCORE

The role and function of research in divided societies, with particular reference to Africa
Eghosa E Osaghae, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Research for empowerment in a divided Cambodia
Helen Jenks Clarke, Co-Field Director, QIAR American Friends Service Committee

7.30 Dinner Oysters Restaurant

Monday 29 March 1999, INCORE, Aberfoyle House

9:00 - 11:00 SESSION TWO

Researcher Identities - Insider/Outsider
Chair: Gillian Robinson, Research Director, INCORE

Panel: The impermeable identity wall: the study of violent conflicts by "insiders"
Tamar Herman, Director, Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University

'Whatever you say, say nothing'
Andrew Finlay, Department of Sociology, Trinity College, Dublin

Being a prophet in whose land?
Pablo Mendez, University of the Basque Country

11:00 COFFEE

11:30 -1:00 SESSION THREE

Whose side are we on? Accountability and Democratising the Research Process
Chair: Michael Marriott, The Overseas Education & Development Company

Panel: Dilemmas of accountability and participation in an action research project in Northern Ireland
Marie Smyth, Project Director, Cost of the Troubles Study

Researching for the People: accountability - a journalist's perspective
Narcisse Rwagasana , Executive Secretary Centre for Strategic Studies and Research in Development (CESTRAFOD)

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:30 SESSION FOUR

Research and/or Intervention: Action Research in Conflicts
Chair: Roger Mac Ginty, Research Officer, INCORE

Panel: Assessing the Viability of War-torn Society Project (WSP) Participatory Action Research in a Stateless Situation: the Case of the WSP Somali Programme
Ahmed Yusuf Farah- War Torn Societies Project, Somalia

The Role and Function of Research in the Management of Violent Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Nigeria
Isaac Olawale Albert, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan

Peculiarities of Researching Conflict in the Fergana Valley
Anara Tabyshalieva, Director, Institute for Regional Studies Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

3:30 COFFEE

4:00 - 5:30 SESSION FIVE

Reporting and Dissemination: who are we addressing? Language, method and accessibility
Chair: Rohan Gunaratna, Department of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Panel: The Politics of Phenomenology: Research when Nothing is Neutral
Greg Tillett, School of Law at the University of Western Sydney

Meanings in conflict: conceptual transferability and comprehension in violent and divided societies.
Sue Williams, Director of Policy and Evaluation, INCORE

The Light Weapons Argument: Logic Dictates but Data Talks
David Meddings, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva

5:30 COFFEE

6.00 - 7.00

SESSION SIX

Demonstration of Resources for Researchers

Conflict Data Service - Cathy Gormley
Ethnic Studies Network - Lyn Moffett
CAIN - Martin Melaugh

7:30 Dinner Trinity Hotel, Strand Road, Derry/Londonderry

Tuesday 30 March 1999

8:30 Bus transfer to Belfast

10:00 Welcome - Professor Mari Fitzduff, Director, INCORE
Welcome - Professor Robert Miller, Director, Centre for Social Research

10:05 Dr. Edgar Jardine, NISRA

10:15 Summary of events Sunday and Monday
Gillian Robinson, Research Director, INCORE
Marie Smyth, Project Director, Cost of the Troubles Study

10:30 COFFEE

11:00 - 1:00 SESSION SEVEN

Ethics, Accessing People, value of research to those being researched
Chair: Paul Arthur, School of History, Philosophy and Politics, University of Ulster

Panel: Accessing People
Lilijana Oruc, Head of department for Psychiatric Genetics at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Sarajevo

Researching Sri Lankan and Kashmiri guerrilla movements - Personal Reflections
Rohan Gunaratna, Department of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

1:00-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-4:00 SESSION EIGHT

Viability of Comparative Research
Chair: Fabienne Hara, International Crisis Group, Burundi

Panel: Keeping a comparative project on the rails
Roger Mac Ginty, Research Officer, INCORE

One Size Fits All? - Focused Comparison and Policy-Relevant Research of Violent Societies
Albrecht Schnabel, Academic Programme Officer, United Nations University, Tokyo

Research in Latin America
Jenny Pearce, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University

4:00-4.30 COFFEE

4.30-5.30 Optional Open Plenary and Discussion

Where do we go from here?
Chairs: Gillian Robinson, Research Director, INCORE
Marie Smyth, Project Director, Cost of the Troubles Study

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5:30-6.30 Closing Business Meeting for Main Participants

7:00 Dinner BK's

Wednesday 31 March 1999

Optional sightseeing tours of Belfast
Participants depart.